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It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.
A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
I love babies. I could take care of them for all the days of my life and I'd be happy. It is for sure passion No. 1.
I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
That's the thing, though: It doesn't matter how much you've done or who you've played with. Do you have the passion?
Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.
Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it.
I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.
Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.
What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.
It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!
You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.
When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
My life is 24 hours talking about football. For me, it is every conversation, every action. It is my life, my passion.
No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.